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Rowel

//ˈɹoʊəl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.

    "The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy,[…]."

  2. 2
    a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur wordnet
  3. 3
    A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.

    "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Knight of the Red Cross, 1850, Edmund Spenser's Knight of the Red Cross; or Holiness, page 74, The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit."

  4. 4
    A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
Verb
  1. 1
    To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid. transitive
  2. 2
    To fit with spurs. transitive
  3. 3
    To apply the spur to. transitive

    "to rowel a horse"

  4. 4
    To incite; to goad. figuratively, transitive

    "He would have been completely ignorant of what was going on if Frank, periodically roweled by the viciously anti-labor stand of the Pittsburgh newspapers, hadn't felt the need of an audience."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.

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